लिङ्ग f. n. (once
m. in
[NṛsUp.] ;
ifc. f(आ). ,
f(ई). only in
विष्णु-लिङ्गी;
prob. fr. √
लग्;
cf. लक्ष,
लक्षण) a mark, spot, sign, token, badge, emblem, characteristic (
ifc. =
तल्-लिङ्ग, ‘having anything for a mark or sign’),
[Up.] ;
[MBh.] &c.
any assumed or false badge or mark, guise, disguise,
[MBh.] ;
[Kāv.] &c.
a proof, evidence,
[Kaṇ.] ;
KātyŚr.;
[Sarvad.] a sign of guilt, corpus delicti,
[Yājñ.] Sch. the sign of gender or sex, organ of generation,
[Mn.] ;
[Hariv.] ;
[Pur.] &c.
योनि the male organ or Phallus (
esp. that of
शिव worshipped in the form of a stone or marble column which generally rises out of a ,
q.v. , and is set up in temples dedicated to
शिव; formerly 12 principal
शिव-लिङ्गs existed, of which the best known are
सोम-नाथ in
Gujarāt,
महा-काल at
उज्जयिनी,
विश्वेश्वर at Benares &c.; but the number of
लिङ्गs in India is estimated at 30 millions,
[IW. 322 n.] ;
[RTL. 78, 1; 90] ),
[MBh.] ;
[R.] &c.
पुं-ल्° gender (in gram.;
cf. ), Prst,
[Pāṇ.] the image of a god, an idol,
[VarBṛS.] व्याप्य (in logic) = , the invariable mark which proves the existence of anything in an object (as in the proposition ‘there is fire because there is smoke’, smoke is the
लिङ्ग;
cf. [IW. 62] )
काव्य-ल्° inference, conclusion, reason (
cf. )
लिङ्गशरीर = (in
वेदान्त)
anything having an origin and therefore liable to be destroyed again,
[Kap.] आकाश = ,
[Kāraṇḍ.] प्रकृति (in
सांख्य) = or
प्रधान, ‘the eternal procreative germ’
[L.] व्यक्त = ,
[L.] cf. [RTL. 30] प्रातिपदिक = , the crude base or uninflected stem of a noun (shortened into
लि),
[Vop.] Sch. कुपितो मकर-ध्वजः (in
rhet. ) an indication (word that serves to fix the meaning of another word;
e.g. in the passage the word
कुपित restricts the meaning of
मकर-ध्वज to ‘
काम’) =
लिङ्ग-पुराण,
[BhP.] the order of the religious student,
[W.] a symptom, mark of disease,
[W.]